Prick Up Your Ears by John Lahr

OUR VENUE FOR NOVEMBER WILL BE AT KEVIN'S HOME NEAR DOWNTOWN BERKELEY, A FEW BLOCKS FROM BART.

Upcoming books and meetings:
Sunday, Nov 9, 2025: Prick Up Your Ears by John Lahr
Sunday, Dec 14, 2025: A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Sunday, Jan 11, 2026: Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance + Fire!! (various authors)
Sunday, Feb 8, 2026: TBD

PLEASE NOTE: If you find yourself getting bogged down in the book, please feel free to instead watch the film from 1987.

Reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton in a biography that was chosen Book of the Year by Truman Capote and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White when it first appeared.

"I have high hopes of dying in my prime," Joe Orton confided in his diary in July, 1967. Less than a month later, Britain's most promising comic playwright was murdered by his lover in the London flat they had shared for fifteen years.

Lahr chronicles Orton's working-class childhood and adolescence, the scandals and disasters of his early professional years, and the brief, glittering success of his blistering comedies: Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot, and What the Butler Saw.

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This is a casual gathering of gay men held on the second Sunday of the month. We have fun and stimulating discussions about quality gay literature while sharing a potluck meal.

Books are selected by participants several months in advance, and the only requirements for attending are to RSVP, to bring food and/or a beverage to share, and to have read a substantial part (at least half) of the book being discussed.

If you're coming, please add a "comment" on this page saying what you'll be bringing for the potluck, so we're less likely to end up with only one type of food. Store-bought food is fine!

Gather at 2:00 for potluck; discussion begins at 3:00 and ends by 4:30.
Event is at a private residence a few blocks from downtown Berkeley BART, and space is limited, so be sure to sign up soon!